No, Trump's weird posture isn't caused by lift-shoes.

[DetlefK]

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Professional male ballroom-dancers wear formal black shoes with 1-inch-heels, to aid and support the feet-muscles during certain strenuous figures. (You won't find these in a standard shoe-store.)

Essentially the same as lift-shoes (Trump is rumored to wear, to make himself taller), except lift-shoes have the additional lift of your heel hidden inside the shoe to make it look natural.

No ballroom-dancer has ever had a posture like this.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Amazing.........

And here I thought it was just his Cro-Magnon genes - without carrying the club... you know - the "good" blood line!

[live love laugh]

10. 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣 nt

[badseedboy]

2. I think this story

has legs.
But seriously.

[live love laugh]

9. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 nt

[Kitchari]

3. K&R n/t

[lamp_shade]

4. My mother was diagnosed with PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) at age 78...

She died from complications 5 years later (2007). I won't go into details, but one initial sign was that she couldn't look down. She was always looking up toward the ceiling. She always leaned forward and fell forward (never backward) several times... even with a cane. We then got her a walker, finally a wheelchair. Yes... there was some dementia, but not until the last year or so. RIP Mom.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. My mom had Supra nulcear palsy

She died this past January.

It's a horrible disease.

I miss my mom everyday.

[lamp_shade]

22. I'm so sorry, Panther.

[captain queeg]

5. I think you are onto something.

[cab67]

6. Has this correlation been replicated since 1888?

[warmfeet]

7. He is attempting to minimize his big, fat, belly.

Leaning back tends to accentuate ones large belly. Leaning forward has the opposite affect. It is also why he wears a long tie and has his clothing tailored to minimize how fat he looks. Remember, this asshole is a narcissist above all. Believe what you want though.

[Dave Starsky]

26. I don't think he wears tailored clothes.

His clothes flat-out don't fit, and he always looks like a total slob. A good tailor can make you look sharp no matter how heavy you are.

[dvduval]

8. Dancer here

I have taught dancing for 25 years. In Latin dancing, the rib is positioned over the ball of the foot and the result is when the hands are left to hang freely, they will be in the front. Beyond that, he is no dancer. That's for sure. Just wanted point that out. Oh, and even if I'm not wearing shoes my hands are still in the front if I'm poised like a Latin dancer. This forward poise tends to give the look of the stronger animal, while if the poise is back a bit it tends to look like an animal that would be prey. in the competition setting, the judges tend to award the stronger animals so to speak. So I'm not sure where he might have gotten the sort of poise or what else it might signify.

[Shaddox]

14. Just asking - doesn't that posture have some scapular/upper back retraction? An athletic position

Of readiness? Not just flaccid dangling? Btw, I enjoyed your input. A dance instructor- My god, I wish I could dance! Haha.

I’ve followed Tom Joseph for a while - Trump is strangely immobile in a way that is not normal.

[Mossfern]

18. Funny

Just a few hours ago I decided to stand like Trump in order to figure it out and it reminded me of how I used to stand while playing outfield when I was a kid. I did think "readiness" position. It's a defensive posture.

[machoneman]

11. Believe what you want. He does have lift shoes as noted elsewhere with pics to prove it.

[dlk]

13. It depends on how high the lifts are...

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Without a doubt, there is co-morbidity with Trump, and not one single factor is impacting his awkward posture. It could be a number of things. An accurate diagnosis would need to be made by a licensed physician who has personally examined Trump. Anything else is just speculation.

[misanthrope]

23. Responsible answer

Thank you.

[dlk]

25. My pleasure

[blogslut]

15. All I know is watch Pence when he's on the stage with Trump.

Mike mimics Donald in stance and gesture. It's frankly terrifying.

[GemDigger]

16. Women wear 5 inch heels and stand straight.

The heel lifts make no sense.

[dlk]

17. If high enough, they would throw off his center of gravity - it's physics

And btw, there are many women who can't stand up straight in 5-inch heels. It throws off their center of gravity, too. We're all just speculating anyway, some of us tongue-in-cheek.

[GemDigger]

19. I wore heels for 4 decades. I still walk upright, I know no one who walks like that becauese of

heels. If women are putting 5 inch heels on for the first time it takes a couple minutes to get it, this clown should be used to those lifts by now (if they are lifts).

[dlk]

24. Glad it worked out for you

[GoCubsGo]

21. Actually, they don't stand straight.

Trump wearing lifts makes plenty of sense. His posture is an exaggerated version of a woman in spike heels. His chest leans forward a lot more, but his ass sticks out as much as a woman's does when she's in high heels. That the male pelvis is shaped differently than the female pelvis could also be throwing him off even more. I suspect there are other things going on, like some bizarre "power" stance, but I have little doubt his lifts contribute to the strange way he stands.

[Blue Owl]

20. Dementia Donny, the Frontotemporal Freak

n/t

[harumph]

27. It's lift shoes + a corset.

If you look at overweight women who wear a tummy constrictor and heels - their posture looks like a centaur.
Have u noticed that he doesn't have as much of a gut as he shows on the golf course?